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India Listed as the most Vulnerable country in the world, India alongside China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Korea is most helpless, says research drove by an Indian-American researcher.

India Ranked As The Most Vulnerable Country To Cyber Attacks

While the US is positioned eleventh most secure of 44 countries contemplated, a few Scandinavian nations like Denmark, Norway and Finland were positioned the most secure in the book created by V.S. Subrahmanian, educator of software engineering at the University of Maryland.

“Our goal was to portray how vulnerable different countries were, identify their current cyber security policies and decide how those policies may need to change because of this new information,” said Subrahmanian, with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Damaging Cyber attacks on a worldwide scale keep on surfacing each day. A few countries are preferably arranged over others to deal online dangers from crooks, terrorists and rebel countries.

Subrahmanian talked about the discoveries at a board dialog facilitated by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington on Wednesday. The creators led a two-year concentrate on that investigated more than 20 billion consequently produced reports, gathered from four million machines for each year around the world.

The analysts based their rankings, to some extent, on the number of machines assaulted in a given nation and the number of times every machine was attacked. Machines utilizing Symantec hostile to infection programming naturally produced these reports, yet just when a machine’s client selected into giving the information. Trojans, trailed by infections and worms, represented the main dangers to machines in the US.

Nonetheless, misleading software(fake against infection projects and circle cleanup utilities) was much more common in the US contrasted and different countries that have a comparative total national output, the creators noted. The outcomes propose that the US endeavors to diminish digital dangers ought to concentrate on training to perceive and abstain from misleading software.

The number of men smoking tobacco in India ascended by more than one-thirds to 108 million in 17 years, as per an alarming new study drove by an Indian-origin specialist, which also found that cigarettes are supplanting the traditional bidis.

Cigarettes are replacing the traditional bidis, 36% rise in male smokers in India

The age group of these new contestants is between 15-29 as indicated by another study distributed in a health diary. In addition, the study found that Indians have supplanted the traditional bidi, which was till now the modest and littler adaptation for cigarettes.

The study’s creator Dr. Prabhat Jha has encouraged the administration to expand tobacco charges in its new spending plan. Past examination by the master has demonstrated this is the main compelling intercession to anticipate future smokers and lower the smoking rate.

According to Times of India reports, in the year 2010, smoking created around 1 million passings in India with roughly 70% of those passings occurring between the ages of 30 and 69, said an official statement. The reports also found the number of men smoking any sort of tobacco at ages 15-69 years ascended by around 29 million, or 36 %, from 79 million in 1998 to 108 million in 2015, speaking to a normal yearly increment of around 1.7 million male smokers.’

The reports also found: “The most elevated pervasiveness of any smoking in men aged 15-69 years was in uneducated men in both 1998 and 2010. Among unskilled men, the pervasiveness of cigarette smoking rose most sharply, by around 3.6 times. By difference, among men with Grade 10 or more instruction, the commonness of bidi or any smoking fell, yet rose modesty for cigarettes.”

WeChat, one of the popular instant messaging service developed by Tencent in China has now added a new feature to its messaging app called ‘WeChat Out’. The new feature introduced by the largest standalone messaging app now allows you make calls to mobiles and landlines. As we all know, WeChat is a huge messaging app with more than 600 million users and it is almost neck-to-neck with other messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

This popular messaging app seems to expand its services in India, the US and Hong Kong with the launch of a new landline calling feature called WeChat Out. The developer of WeChat, Tencent has been augmenting the capabilities of its popular messaging app with WeChat Out that will allow users to call their friends and beloved ones across the world via their mobile or landline. The new feature termed as ‘WeChat Out’ is quite similar to Skype and Viber Wherein you have the ability to call any number.

WeChat Rolls Out New “WeChat Out” Feature to its Messaging App

WeChat has been rolling out similar feature to allure its users as a gift of New Year. The standalone messaging app now provides its users the ability to dial out to any international landline or mobile number. According to the Chinese giant, the new feature provide about 100 minutes of international calling despite the person who you’re trying to reach. As of now, the new call option is limited only to three countries that include India, Hong Kong, and the US.

The WeChat app maker, Tencent is promising “more countries and regions in the near future”. WeChat’s parent company TenCent is also offering a free $0.99 credit which will be gifted to any who begins using the service. TenCent also claims that it will get you up to 100 minutes of talk time to most countries. On important point to be noted is that the user has only a week to use that credit before it expires, so try to make use of this amazing offer while it lasts.

How to Use WeChat Out Feature?

As it is a new feature added to the standalone messaging app, WeChat, you might not be aware of how to use this feature for making calls to people who are in abroad. All you need to do to begin using WeChat out is to follow the steps given below:

Just tap the ‘+’ icon in the top right of the WeChat app.

You can view WeChat Out option. Hit it and then choose from your list of contacts or type direct into the dialer.

If you don’t see the option WeChat Out yet, make sure you have the most current version of the WeChat app o your mobile for your region.

WeChat is launched in the year 2011 and since its launch, it has reportedly turned to an active user base of 600 million, which is almost double of Skype’s user base and over approximately six times Viber’s active user base. Despite WhatsApp is still to let its users call people who haven’t installed the app, WeChat trails the Facebook-owned WhatsApp.